update… July 23, 2008

hey all.

Sorry have been busy and not having much time to post recently. Work is still going very well. I am finding that working part-time is a great set up for us. I think it is making me a better parent. Having adult time away from home and contributing to society is a good, healthy thing. My time away from Anna makes me miss her and enjoy my time with her even more. It is a good balance. I am also less stressed out at work which is huge for me.

I cannot believe it is almost August! Where has the summer gone? My goodness. Anna and I have been enjoying taking a “swim” in our backyard kiddie pool. She Loves it. She is like a little fish in the water and is so happy splashing around.

I have 4 friends that will be having babies this summer and early fall. One couple is due this week—pretty exciting. I think Ryan and I are looking forward to having more friends with babies/kids since we are some of the first in our group of close friends here in Portland.

Anna has been ( for the most part) sleeping well at night. She typically goes to bed around 10pm and on a good night will sleep until 630am, In fact this week I’ve been having to wake her up to bet ready for day care.

Hope to be updating some photos soon.

daycare July 12, 2008

So Anna’s first trip to daycare was this week. It was probably harder on me that it was on her. Ryan takes her because it is located in his building which is great. He is able to go down at lunch time to feed her a bottle and play with her. I think he is looking forward to this being their time together. She had her first little injury from there this week–one of her little friends accidently scratched her near her eye and made her bleed. Poor little thing–oh well I know there are many more injuries coming down the road.

She is becoming so mobile now. She now knows how to roll over both ways. She is a rolling maniac. If you turn your back for just one second next thing you know she has rolled. I now realize how much more careful we have to be. She will sitting up and crawling before we even know it. All of this really does happen so fast. I cannot believe how big she has gotten. Oh and this week was the first week we actually heard her laugh out loud. It was a real giggle and was so darn cute!!

It is a hot weekend here in Portland–95 degree today. Gotta love it though because we only have line 3 mos a year of hot weather. Anna and I actually went swimming yesterday with some friends. We are going to go to get out of the city tomorrow and head to the beach.

dating the douchbag July 5, 2008

listen to this guy– he is a real loser…..

Glad I am not dating.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/audio/play/691530/

work July 3, 2008

It has been awhile since I last posted. It has been a busy past couple of weeks. I went back to work last week and it wasnt as bad as I had worried it would be. The first day was long and a bit stressful–but that is to be expected after having not worked in 7 months. It actually was nice to interact with adults again. I feel so lucky that I can work part-time. It is the perfect mix for us right now.

It was hard to leave Anna that long but my parents have been in town from Minnesota for the past 2 weeks and they were the babysitters. It really made that transition back to work so much easier. Now next Monday will be a different story because that will be Anna’s first day at daycare. That is going to be a hard day.

The 4th of July is tomorrow. We had plans to go to a beach house in Lincoln, City however it sort-of fell apart, so now we will just spend the weekend here in Portland. I am not that psyched about it because all our crazy neighbors light off fireworks ALL night long and it is so terribly annoying. Especially now with a baby. argh oh well.